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Cathlin | Where does the lost money go in the stock market. Example, you invest $10, drops to $5, where does that $5 go? |
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I guess, I mean where does that lost $5 cash go when it is sold, as I paid up front $10 in cash.
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LuvDylan
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If you didn't sell, there is no loss. You have to sell to have a loss. So if you invest $10., and sell at $5. there is no profit. You got the loss. The change is not an investment, it is a difference in the price people are willing to pay for a stock share. It's not lost until you sell. The "market" loses when those prices offered and accepted at market prices change on a day to day basis. |
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alex
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The guy who sold you the stock for $10 still has the $10. And you only have $0 and a piece of paper to show for it. You hope someone will give you $5 for it someday. And if the stock drops to $0 after you sold it, the other guy will be asking where his $5 went. |
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Property Manager
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This is common mis-conception among green investors. The "value" of stock is only a estimation (a best guess) of what the security is worth at a given point in time. It's not actual money.
Try thinking of it like a house appraisal: An appraiser says your house is worth $100,000 dollars one week. The next week he says it's worth $80,000. That $20,000 difference is just a change in the estimated value of the home, not actual money lost.
Same theory.
When you bought the stock at $10, you paid that much because, at that point in time, there were people willing to pay $10 for it, because that's what the market "estimated" the security was worth. Now, the market "estimates" that people are only willing to pay $5 for it, so it is not worth as much any more.
Not an easy concept to grasp. Hope this helps.
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stward101
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Here's the deal about investing in business, the stock market, or real estate--anything that goes up and down in value. Say you buy 1 share of stock for $10. You do this because you think the stock price will go up. Other people think so too and also want to buy the stock, so much so that they're willing to pay a little more for it and it's offered to buyers at higher and higher prices. Finally, at a price of say $15 buyers no longer see it as a bargain and stock owners start selling. Now the price is offered at lower and lower prices in an attempt to entice buyers, and sellers are willing to sell for less just to get out. The price keeps falling to $5 and you and others who did not sell watch their investment lose value. So, in a way that $5 went to more savvy investors.
G$ G--Tell that to the people who have to liquidate during a major correction. |
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Peilthetraveler
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It doesnt exist. no money is made or lost until you sell |
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Derek (Steelers, SB champs)
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Its only a loss on paper. Its not a loss of real money until you sell at a loss. |
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G$ G
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From an AP article:
Robert Shiller, an economist at Yale, puts it bluntly: The notion that you lose a pile of money whenever the stock market tanks is a "fallacy." He says the price of a stock has never been the same thing as money — it's simply the "best guess" of what the stock is worth.
"It's in people's minds," Shiller explains. "We're just recording a measure of what people think the stock market is worth. What the people who are willing to trade today — who are very, very few people — are actually trading at. So we're just extrapolating that and thinking, well, maybe that's what everyone thinks it's worth."
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inch_from_crazy
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that is a speculated value......like if you had a a gold nugget woth 100 dollars today and tomorrow the price of gold fell , you would have "lost" money because you didnt sell it yesterday. |
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